Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Wed September 04, 2013 8:01 pm
So that's it then, we've all gone off this album already. Cool.
Aw huh.McParadigm wrote:Ho yes--- wrote:but seriously i look forward to being able to make fun of this album for years on end
I'm sure I'll love it. I've been holding steady at 4 tattoos for a long while.McParadigm wrote:No, no, it's gonna be good, stip. It's, uh...it's gonna be really...fun! Yeah, fun! So...I mean, nothing to...uh, worry. About. Well, not good as in 'GOOD,' you know, but....it's gonna be...it's....uh....stip wrote:we've had three reviews and the longest one seemed pretty excited. I forget about the other two.McParadigm wrote:Quiet listening parties are very rare. Intense initial bursts of excitement are not.harmless wrote:It doesn't sound as if they even hired a quiet room for it. Which is weird.digster wrote:That's a little surprising to me; these kinds of listening parties seem tailor-made for you to come out of it being really positive about the experience (and, by extension, the record).evenslow wrote:what's your point?theplatypus wrote:Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but it strikes me that pretty much nobody who has heard the album has given it rave reviews. There's a lot of "it was nice" and "I loved some of the songs", but nobody seems to be super hyped up and excited about it.
Of course i'd prefer someone came out and said 'oh my god this is the best thing ever'. On the other hand, I've never said that about any pj album after one listen, let alone a listen under sub par circumstances when I'm also so worried about remembering what I heard that I can't just listen
Let's just talk Clemson via PMdarth_vedder wrote:Jesus, I checked this thread out like a day ago, and there are like 50 new pages since. Can someone sum that last 20 or so pages up for me? Does this album still suck?
We liked the idea of it for several pages back there but then Jorge came and told us it was going to suck and we all agreed we were getting ahead of ourselves and he was right.darth_vedder wrote:Jesus, I checked this thread out like a day ago, and there are like 50 new pages since. Can someone sum that last 20 or so pages up for me? Does this album still suck?
Drummers have shitty taste in music, and yes.darth_vedder wrote:Jesus, I checked this thread out like a day ago, and there are like 50 new pages since. Can someone sum that last 20 or so pages up for me? Does this album still suck?
- Europeans aren't excited about the albumdarth_vedder wrote:Jesus, I checked this thread out like a day ago, and there are like 50 new pages since. Can someone sum that last 20 or so pages up for me? Does this album still suck?
Well, I'd hate for you to lose one, and that's the truth.stip wrote:I'm sure I'll love it. I've been holding steady at 4 tattoos for a long while.McParadigm wrote:No, no, it's gonna be good, stip. It's, uh...it's gonna be really...fun! Yeah, fun! So...I mean, nothing to...uh, worry. About. Well, not good as in 'GOOD,' you know, but....it's gonna be...it's....uh....stip wrote:we've had three reviews and the longest one seemed pretty excited. I forget about the other two.McParadigm wrote:Quiet listening parties are very rare. Intense initial bursts of excitement are not.harmless wrote:It doesn't sound as if they even hired a quiet room for it. Which is weird.digster wrote:That's a little surprising to me; these kinds of listening parties seem tailor-made for you to come out of it being really positive about the experience (and, by extension, the record).evenslow wrote:what's your point?theplatypus wrote:Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but it strikes me that pretty much nobody who has heard the album has given it rave reviews. There's a lot of "it was nice" and "I loved some of the songs", but nobody seems to be super hyped up and excited about it.
Of course i'd prefer someone came out and said 'oh my god this is the best thing ever'. On the other hand, I've never said that about any pj album after one listen, let alone a listen under sub par circumstances when I'm also so worried about remembering what I heard that I can't just listen
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Let's just talk Clemson via PMdarth_vedder wrote:Jesus, I checked this thread out like a day ago, and there are like 50 new pages since. Can someone sum that last 20 or so pages up for me? Does this album still suck?
Me too =). That's one of my absolute favorites. I thought the man could do no wrong basically through Yield.cutuphalfdead wrote:He wrote Faithfull which is like a top 3 Pearl Jam song for me.HardTI wrote:Weakest songwriter in the band. There I said it. He has some absolute gems that cemented me as a PJ fan, but he has some really shit songs too.cutuphalfdead wrote:And Turning Mist.Mike wrote:Yeah, but he also was pretty proud of Inside Job.Release_Me wrote:I read somewhere that Sirens is the song Mike is most proud of. The guy wrote GTF. I'm not worried about Sirens.
you've missed nothing besides drummer debates and bad jokes.darth_vedder wrote:Jesus, I checked this thread out like a day ago, and there are like 50 new pages since. Can someone sum that last 20 or so pages up for me? Does this album still suck?
For an album we haven't heard? Not really. I'm just not going to accuse it of sucking already.theplatypus wrote:- Stip and Harmless make a lot of excuses
If it sounded anything like that I would love it.Mike wrote:
Guys, I found a snippet of the new SBM!